"I'm sorry, Mr. Jackson. Perhaps I wasn't thinking right. I just thought that..." She didn't know what to say. She just felt as though she were in a fantasy.

"There's no need to apologize. I should be the one doing that instead," Christopher said with a sigh. "I thought there was something between us, but I might have made a mistake. I was a fool." "No," Sydney exclaimed.

A glint flashed past the depths of Christopher's eyes, but a look of despondence overtook him. "No? Do you mean that we..."

Sydney spoke too soon, realizing that she might have fallen into his trap. He was a scheming man, after all.

"Mr. Jackson, I meant that it's very normal for people to overthink things. It has nothing to do with you being foolish."

Her instincts warned her against getting too close to this man.

"Mr. Jackson, I have something to attend to and need to go. See you."

Sydney then turned to leave.

"Is that goodbye?" Christopher asked, looking at her retreating figure. "Or do you really mean that we will see each other again?"

Sydney stopped in her tracks, unsure of what to say in response to him.

a good relationship with my husband,"

"But that's

turned around. "Did

"I'm not that kind of person. I did ask about you. Your relationship with your husband doesn't seem as good as you put it to be. He was unfaithful to you in the past, didn't he?" Pain seared Sydney's heart at the thought of the past. "I'm sorry. I have

stumbled out of the private room. Her hastily retreating figure

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all

it more

and always asking to go home. Yet,

out of

in, she could hear a racket

do? Let me go! Are you

not in a good state? I'm still fit and strong! Don't treat me as though I'm made of paper. I need to find Rose." "Grandma," Theodore said, "Rose is very busy right now with her studies. She doesn't have the time to come visit you." "How could that be? Can't she just take leave from school? I haven't seen her for

to persuade Rebecca. However, she refused to listen to themand continued insisting on

then, Sydney

when Sydney

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